How does zip(*[iter(s)]*n) work in Python?

Question

s = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
n = 3

zip(*[iter(s)]*n) # returns [(1,2,3),(4,5,6),(7,8,9)]

How does zip(*[iter(s)]*n) work? What would it l

Answer 1

iter(s) returns an iterator for s.

[iter(s)]*n makes a list of n times the same iterator for s.

So, when doing zip(*[iter(s)]*n), it extracts an item from all the three iterators from the list in order. Since all the iterators are the same object, it just groups the list in chunks of n.